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Around 2010, the company created a draft timetable which offered four return trips between Yeovil Junction and the Midlands, via Yeovil Pen Mill, Castle Cary, Frome, Westbury, Trowbridge, Melksham, Chippenham, Swindon and Oxford, [3] with three of those services being extended to Birmingham Moor Street.
A connection between the GWR line and the Southern Railway line to Exeter was established during World War II to allow trains direct access between Yeovil Junction and Yeovil Pen Mill. This was opened on 13 October 1943 and offered a new route for trains of war materials as well as a diversion route in the event of bomb damage. [1]
South Western Railway operates an hourly service (with peak extras) between London Waterloo and Salisbury with limited extensions to Bristol Temple Meads, Exeter St Davids and Yeovil Pen Mill. [1] Services call every two hours each way on Sundays, terminating eastbound at Reading instead of Basingstoke (which is the usual Monday to Saturday ...
On 24 October 1882, a passenger train was derailed near Cattistock when a bridge collapsed under it due to a storm. Several people were injured, on seriously. [17] On 8 August 1913, a passenger train ran into the rear of another at Yeovil Pen Mill due to passing a signal at danger. Two people were killed and ten injured, two seriously. [18]
Yeovil Junction is the busier, but less central, of two railway stations serving the town of Yeovil in Somerset, England; the other is Yeovil Pen Mill. The station is sited 2 miles (3.2 km) outside the town, in the village of Stoford ; although Yeovil is in Somerset, the station was in Dorset until 1991. [ 1 ]
At Salisbury, the Great Western Railway (GWR) line from Westbury and Bristol had its own terminus: the L&SWR continued the route southeast towards Southampton. This route is known nowadays as the Wessex Main Line. Between Salisbury and Exeter: Salisbury to Yeovil, opened 2 May 1859; Yeovil to Exeter, opened 19 July 1860; Branches:
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1 train per hour to London Waterloo (stopping) - South Western Railway; 1 train per hour to Salisbury (stopping) - South Western Railway; Additional services call at peak times, with extensions westward to either Yeovil Pen Mill or Exeter St Davids. Sunday trains call every two hours each way.